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4WheelMe @4wheelworkout.bsky.social · 4h

Still ain’t getting my $.

Good for them tho

♎ jentrification @jentrification.com · 7h

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Target Begins Selling THC-Infused Cannabis Drinks As Congress Debates Possible Hemp Law Reversal - Marijuana Moment

The retail giant Target is soft launching sales of THC-infused beverages at select stores in Minnesota, an executive of one cannabis drink company participating in the rollout and other industry leade...

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Lauryn Bhavnani @wishkhh.bsky.social · 1d

omg this site is amazing now i don't have to mentally go down the list of "did i have water/eat/ nap?"

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

youfeellikeshit.com my therapist told me about this. it's a little walk through on how to feel better when you feel like shit. im working through it now. it is, delightfully, in twine

Need a nap?

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

That's two Chicago journalists feds have arrested (that I know of) in the last few weeks.

We're less than 24 hours out from federal judge Sara Ellis entering a restraining order that was supposed to protect journalists, among others, from abuse by federal agents.

Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Lauryn Bhavnani @wishkhh.bsky.social · 1d

so sorry for your loss sending you well wishes🫶🏾

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 3d

Consider this my #BannedBooksWeek reminder that members of the #GraphicMedicine community have to care about this issue.

Why?

Because graphic medicine is heavily targeted, especially comics about sex and gender, both directly and through invisible soft censorship.

Support your libraries!

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ChronicLoaf @chronicloaf.bsky.social · 4d

#WolfWalkers is playing in the #ChronicLoaf #Criptober stream

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#CriptoberRevival #neisvoid #spoonies #mmj #The13thHour #FullMoon #HappyHalloween #spoonkyseason #animation

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 5d

Everyone deserves healthcare.

Everyone deserves housing.

Everyone deserves education.

Everyone deserves food & clean water.

This should not be controversial. They’re basic human rights.

We could provide them to everyone if we abolished the billionaire class and taxed corporations properly.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 4d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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💖💄 Aoife ♿💖 @aoiferocksitout.bsky.social · 7d

Bibi sells all kinds of fun, cute and useful items!
I can't wait for the strawberry cane!
Have gotten a bunch of stuff from their store and it's all cute and of good quality.
Bibi is also a wonderful person who is always giving back to their communities in a number of ways.
Check out the shop!💖🍓

🌸Bibi🌸♿ (formerly bibicosplays) @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 7d

It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.

I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, binders, hip braces, wrist braces, compression socks, walking sticks, elbow braces, bags, back braces & more!

Store details below!

5 Oval shaped pins with gold outlines with an oval cutout in the middle with a yellow slideable star:

Spoons: Lavender background
Hunger Scale: Red background
Migraine Scale: Blue background
Speaking vs Non Speaking: Green background

The first one has SHE, THEY, HE on top. At the bottom there's HER, THEM, HIM. White background.

Strawberry, Galaxy and Bats Wrist Braces

Strawberry, Galaxy and Bats Thumb Splints

Elbow braces in the strawberry, Galaxy and Bats patterns

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Sam Still Masks 🪉 @theailingwitch.bsky.social · 4d

🚨🚨🚨
Please help Mae!

The next $500 of donations will be matched— if you have a few bucks they can make such a huge difference!!!

Mae_DayJ @maedayj.bsky.social · 4d

Someone has very kindly offered to match the next $500 in dough-nations!

Any amount you can give will have double the impact! Please please help if you can 🙏

V: @ Maelee-Johnson
PayPal.me/maeleeJ
ko-fi.com/maedaej
$maelee21

Please help me stay housed!

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Lauryn Bhavnani @wishkhh.bsky.social · 5d

:0!! that's pretty cool!! now u have to put it somewhere you'll see it everyday

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˶ˆ꒳ˆ˵ @sxkyu.bsky.social · 5d

still big thanks to anonymous who got the compression gloves from bibi off of my throne wish list !

they've been super helpful in my day to day and it'd be that much rougher with it them so if you have the means please support bibi !

🌸Bibi🌸♿ (formerly bibicosplays) @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 7d

It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.

I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, binders, hip braces, wrist braces, compression socks, walking sticks, elbow braces, bags, back braces & more!

Store details below!

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💖💄 Aoife ♿💖 @aoiferocksitout.bsky.social · 13d

Please share everywhere!
Please help our friend @sndesireecha.bsky.social and her ESA survive!
Housing should be recognized as a human right but it is not!
Please help keep our community member alive!
If you can't help, please share!
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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 14d

We’ll be homeless on the streets tomorrow.

Please help a dog and her human by boosting our fundraiser and helping us prepare for being and when we become unsheltered homeless. Thank you.

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Lauryn Bhavnani @wishkhh.bsky.social · 6d

THATS SO CUTE!!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8d

Everyone who attends on October 9 will be eligible to win this embroidery in our raffle. Join us to explore how YOU can take real, specific, and immediate actions in your own community to strengthen and expand public libraries. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

An embroidery hoop displays the words "Libraries Are For The People" in cursive, surrounded by embroidered green and blue leaves, and topped with a blue satin ribbon. It rests on a marble surface.

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Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 7d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 7d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies

U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.

www.reuters.com

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 7d

All eyes on Broadview, Illinois tonight.

Broadview is a suburb about 12 miles west of Chicago.

Our friends are reporting on the scene ⬇️

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7d

Heard an officer say "let's do it" and then, in the dark, they tackle Rabbi Ben to the ground. He's being loaded into a CCSO wagon now. Broadview police also here screaming at people.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 9d

Flyer for Broadview protests. Text reads: NO MORE DEPORTATIONS | SHUT DOWN THE BROADVIEW FACILITY | 7-9am, Friday October 3 | 4pm-onward, Saturday October 4 | 1930 Beach St, Broadview IL | Bring a buddy, respirators, and goggles

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 9d

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

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"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building.

"They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 9d

BREAKING: The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.

Director of Eisenhower Library in Kansas ousted after refusing to give Trump administration a sword

The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.

www.kcur.org

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 9d

1-866-952-4456 to tell Netflix that in no way do you want Elon fucking Musk determining what you watch.

I just called, got through in about 15 seconds, and told them that I strongly support queer inclusion in their programming and that I will cancel my subscription if they cave.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 9d

1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters.

If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Elon Musk Leads Campaign To Force Netflix To Remove Shows With Trans Characters

Musk's posts have been seen by tens of millions of users, and many conservatives are now attempting to force Netflix into a removal of LGBTQ+ content.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Tiffany W @tiffany.thetriibe.com · 12d

beyond heartbreaking

Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 12d

‪ICE snatched—and has since separated—a family who’ve lived in Chicago for three years and were visiting Millennium Park because the daughter had begged to go. Now the mother and child are being held in a windowless room at O'Hare while the dad is inside the notorious Broadview detention facility.

Mother, children detained by ICE at Millennium Park Sunday held at O’Hare with other families: ‘We never imagined’

The mother said she felt her family was targeted because of their appearance. “There were a lot more people there, but the agents came directly to us because of how we look,” she said.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Bill Wolkoff @billwearsties.bsky.social · 12d

Finally Barbara’s story is getting national attention. New update from her gofundme: she is now in a Louisiana ICE processing center after three days of travel in shackles. She’s sleeping on the floor and has been denied care for her medical condition.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 12d

If you’re feeling lonely, sad, hopeless or exhausted… please know you’re not alone.

The disability community is a powerful force.

We may be isolated. Many of us may be housebound. But in many ways, we are “alone together”.

Take a break. Rest & recharge.

We have your back.

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